Cotton Whigs

The Cotton Whigs was a conservative faction of the Whig Party that was based in the American South. The Cotton Whigs were indifferent to slavery due to their close ties to the New England textile industry, and they succeeded in nominating the slaveholding US Army general Zachary Taylor as its 1848 presidential nominee. The Cotton Whigs would exist until the Whig Party's 1854 dissolution, and many former Cotton Whigs joined the Constitutional Union Party.